...Essay 1: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” summary and response Summary: In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. The article begins with that the Internet is the excellent resource where we can find whatever we want for everything, and we are becoming more and more dependent on it in the field of writing, reading and so on. Afterwards, Carr claims that it has a large distraction on our mind, and we even cannot concentrate on a long reading material. As he said, technology is becoming more important than people. In the end, he also tells us that Google is trying to invent an artificial brain to replace our "slow" brains that we already have. In the article of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing the way our mind works and has some negative effects on our lives. He views the idea that the Internet is an obstacle for individuals to think deeply, and it is rebuilding our mind and memory. As Carr said, nowadays, it is so difficult for him to focus on a long paper; instead, he always spends a lot of time on the Internet. In the past, the writers like him should stay in the library to study for several days, but now, because of the Internet, it just...
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...Summary, Analysis, Response “A Google, Google, Google, Google World” McCracken, Harry. "A Google, Google, Google, Google World." PC World Communications, Inc. 28.8 (2005): 17-18. Print. “A Google, Google, Google, Google World” by Harry McCracken, in PC World is an article that touches on the uses of Google as a search engine. McCracken states in his article Google’s slogan "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful”. But he goes on to mention that Google now, more than ever seems to be taking the far-reaching implications of those words quite literally. The article talks about all of the incoming innovations that are being created through Google such as the Picasa Pictures, Gmail, Google Print and...
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...Liberty University Bible 110 1. What does this small story tell us about Jesus? Try to discover the central message of this story, and then write it out. Read the stories/passages before (Matt 24:36–44) and after (Matt 25:1–13) the text you chose and write out their main messages. This story in Matthew 24:45-51 tells us that Jesus wants us to represent Him in everything we do. Sometimes we as Christian can become lazy and tend to slack off on being examples of Christ. I believe this scripture verse is also telling us about the second coming of Christ. We need to always be ready for when the time comes, because we as humans have no idea when the Lord will come again. He expects us to represent Him well and to be an example for Him all the time. Matthew 24:36-44 is also reminding us that we need to be prepared for the second coming of the Lord. I also believe that this scripture verse has an underlying point to minister to the people we are working hand in hand with. Again in Matthew 25:1-13 it tells us to be prepared and always ready for the Lord’s coming. We don’t want to be unprepared like the foolish virgins instead we want to strive to be like the wise virgins who brought enough oil to last them the night. Edward Schweizer gives a great summary of being like the wise virgins, “those who are wise are those whose eyes are open to what is yet to come and do not live simply for the day. They rake along an emergency supply of oil, thinking beyond the immediate present...
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...Julie Diaz Writ101 September 23, 2012 Analytical Essay “Is Pop Culture Actually Good For You?” Popular culture which has been shortened to pop culture is defined as “cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.” (“pop culture”) Television, movies, music, art, the internet, famous people, sports, and politics are some of the major components that make up pop culture. As expected by the standards of society there is a profuse amount of controversy about pop culture being either good or bad for someone. In an email written to Schlessinger, the writer expresses that, “...teenager had been using very offensive swear words since the age of 5 when this person saw an R-rated movie” and “...teenager had started inhaling cocaine after seeing it done in a movie.” (Schlessinger) According to the writer, the above actions are a result of children being over exposed to pop culture. Yes, it is possible that the effect pop culture can have on children can be more profound since it influences their developing morals, but that does not rule out the possible effects it can have on adults as well. In his own experience Carr states that, “[He’s] not thinking the way [he] used to think...[he’d] spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now [his] concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages...” (Carr) So it can be concluded that pop culture has a way...
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...East, Victoria 3145 Australia Telephone: +603 9876 9990 Email: talentwork.com.au 6th May 2013 Dear Dr Jasvir Kaur, As requested we hereby submit this analysis report for Domino. In this report, we have reviewed the nature of Domino’s crisis, root reason for this event, the impact of the event on the whole corporate as well analysis of Domino’s reactions and response. At last, we provide recommendations regarding with this issue and expected future outcome. We would like to express our sincere thanks for your guidance and support during the process of compiling this report. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you. Yours sincerely, Du Mengting, Haolin Huang, Cheong Wai Yee, Lu Li, Xiaodan Wang Table of Contents LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 PART A 5 1.0 Timeline of Major Events 5 2.0 Social Media Effects 6 3.0 Root causes of the Domino’s Pizza issues 7 4.0 A discussion of the major stakeholders affected 8 PART B 10 5.0 Things that Domino’s Pizza need to say or do in relation to the crisis 10 6.0 When Domino’s Pizza should respond to the public 11 7.0 Interventions of the roots causes 12 8.0 Medium that Domino’s Pizza should use to deliver its message 13 Conclusion 15 PART C 17 9.0 Team Reflection Report 17 9.1 Our team goal and achievement 17 9.2 Communication challenges 17 9.3 Group performance 18 9.4 Strategies for team performance improvement 19 ...
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...LO16-1. Define the monitoring problem and state its implications for economics. LO16-2. Discuss why competition should be seen as a process, not a state. LO16-3. Summarize how firms protect monopoly. LO16-4. Explain why oligopoly is the best market structure for technological change. After reading this chapter, you should be able to: LO16-1. Define the monitoring problem and state its implications for economics. LO16-2. Discuss why competition should be seen as a process, not a state. LO16-3. Summarize how firms protect monopoly. LO16-4. Explain why oligopoly is the best market structure for technological change. “It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is rat eat rat; dog eat dog. I’ll kill ’em, and I’m going to kill ’em before they kill me. You’re talking about the American way of survival of the fittest.” Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald’s) When Microsoft was designing Zune, the Microsoft workers were sent a link to a video of Steven Jobs (the CEO of Apple) showing Jobs stating, “The only problem with Microsoft is that they have no taste—Absolutely no taste.” The goal of Microsoft showing the video to Microsoft workers was to infuriate the Microsoft workers sufficiently so that they would show that not only do they have taste, but that they can bury Apple and its iPod. It was to make the competition with Apple personal. It didn’t work, and Apple went public with its “no taste” view of Microsoft in a series of TV ads that portrayed the Apple computer as the tasteful...
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...School of Management Marketing Management-Section 61681 December 15, 2013 Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………....3 2.0 Situational Analysis Overview……………………………………………………………...3 2.1 Market Summary……………………………………………………………………………5 2.2 SWOT Analysis……………………………………………………………………………...6 2.3 Competition………………………………………………………………………………….7 2.4 Product Service Offering……………………………………………………………………8 2.5 Keys to Success………………………………………………………………………………9 2.6 Critical Issues……………………………………………………………………………….10 3.0 Marketing Strategy Overview……………………………………………………………..10 3.1 Mission………………………………………………………………………………………13 3.2 Marketing Objectives………………………………………………………………………13 3.3 Financial Objectives………………………………………………………………………..15 3.4 Target Markets……………………………………………………………………………..17 3.5 Positioning…………………………………………………………………………………..18 3.6 Pricing Strategies…………………………………………………………………………...19 3.7 Market Attack Strategy……………………………………………………………………22 3.8 Marketing Research………………………………………………………………………..24 4.0 Controls……………………………………………………………………………………..27 4.1 Progress Milestones………………………………………………………………………...27 4.2 Market Organization………………………………………………………………………28 4.3 Contingency Planning……………………………………………………………………...28 5.0 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………..29 References………………………………………………………………………………………30 1.0 Executive Summary Cell phones are a ubiquitous part of our global communications structure with more than 4.6 billion worldwide subscriptions...
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...Summary of The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman LENGTH: 4976 words HEADLINE: It's a Flat World, After All BYLINE: By Thomas L. Friedman. Thomas L. Friedman is the author of ''The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,'' to be published this week by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and from which this article is adapted. His column appears on the Op-Ed page of The Times, and his television documentary ''Does Europe Hate Us?'' will be shown on the Discovery Channel on April 7 at 8 p.m. BODY: In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail for India, going west. He had the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. He never did find India, but he called the people he met ''Indians'' and came home and reported to his king and queen: ''The world is round.'' I set off for India 512 years later. I knew just which direction I was going. I went east. I had Lufthansa business class, and I came home and reported only to my wife and only in a whisper: ''The world is flat.'' And therein lies a tale of technology and geoeconomics that is fundamentally reshaping our lives -- much, much more quickly than many people realize. It all happened while we were sleeping, or rather while we were focused on 9/11, the dot-com bust and Enron -- which even prompted some to wonder whether globalization was over. Actually, just the opposite was true, which is why it's time to wake up and prepare ourselves for this flat world, because others already are, and there is no time to waste. I wish I could say I saw...
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...PROJECT REPORT ON A STUDY ON INTERNET SHARING SITE YOUTUBE.COM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTERNET -The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web. COMMON USES OF THE INTERNET - Email, Remote access, Collaboration, File sharing, Streaming media, Voice telephony, Leisure, and Marketing. VIDEOS SHARING SITES - Video sharing refers to websites or software where a user can distribute their video clips. Some services may charge, but the bulk of them offer free services. Many services have options for private sharing and other publication options. YOUTUBE.COM – Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email. FACTS ABOUT YOUTUBE – Founded in February of 2005 by three former employees of eBay's PayPal unit. In July, more than 30 million people...
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...Chhabra | 31 | FA2 | Vaishali Dhiman | 47 | FA2 | Acknowledgement Any accomplishment requires the effort of many people and this work is no different. We take this opportunity to thank Prof. Sham Sharma for providing us valuable guidance at various stages of my project. Well! We do not have any long list of names to give them any credit for this project report as the credit mostly goes to us. But as we are being humans by the time of our birth, we are also dependent. We owe our sincere thanks to the college faculties, who always believe that the last bencher is not capable of doing nothing, their criticism challenged us to prove them wrong. We like to thank all our colleges at IIPM, New Delhi who always do their best by helping us to enjoy the life at its peak by bunking the lectures and spending time with PVR cinemas. We like to remember the wisdom provided by GOOGLE and ALTAVIST.com, for their valuable suggestions and auto completion dialogue boxes, without them we would not be able to bring this project report. Finally we would like to thank to Prof. Sham Sharma again for entertaining this acknowledgement without taking any action against pranks and been always supportive and motivator for innovation. Table of content Executive summary The Blair Witch Project was a low budget movie made by student filmmakers that become an...
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...CAMP FLAMING WINGS Course Name: Marketing Management Course No : MKT 201 Section : 5 Marketing plan On Camp Flaming Wings Submitted to: Husna Ara Submitted by: Team Renegades Team Renegades NAME | STUDENT ID | Md. Asad-uz-zaman Khan | 2013-2-10-160 | Omar Bin Alam | 2013-2-10-190 | Tanjil Abedin Khan | 2013-1-10-377 | Arunima Dhar | 2013-3-10-196 | Sayeef Zimran Khan | 2011-2-10-067 | Date of Submission: 26th November, 2014 Company Name & Logo: Camp Flaming Wings Period of time to Complete Marketing Plan: 26 October 2014 to 26 November2014 26th November, 2014 Husna Ara Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Administration East West University. Subject: REQUEST TO ACCEPT THE BUSINESS PLAN ON FLAMING WINGS. Dear Madam, We the five students of BBA department of your section(05) beg most humbly to state that we are presenting our business plan on “Flaming Wings”. We are very delighted to inform you that our group has accomplished our business plan under your kind supervision. We have given our best effort to make this business plan and we have tried to make this plan effective and informative. Now we are presenting our plan before you and we hope that this plan will live up to your expectation. Your’s Sincerely, Team Renegades Name ...
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...many people able to purchase them (IKEA/MY/EN, 2014). Now, IKEA had established in about 40 countries with 345 stores, such as France, China, United States and so on and it’s still growing. IKEA is positioning as good quality furniture with low price. IKEA is known as a values driven company with a passion for life at home (IKEA /GB/EN, 2014). IKEA has offers varieties of home furnishing products with affordable price to people. IKEA furnishing products are designed to let customers easy to carry back to home and install it by themselves. IKEA promote that the furnishing products provided is a way to a beautiful home to fulfill with love and make life better. IKEA’s stores decorated in a way that how actual home look like. This design is making for the convenient of people to get inspiration on what to put in their home by choosing the products they want. IKEA’s furnishing products can be classified into many categories. First of all is the home furnishing product. For this category, the furnishing products that provided have bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, living room and much more. People can find any furnishing products that they want in our stores. For the bedroom furniture such as bed, IKEA has foam, latex and spring mattresses. People can choose based on their favorite. For living room...
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...HEWLETT-PACKARD CASE ANALYSIS Pooya Mehmandoost University of Houston-Victoria April30, 2014 Management and organizational behavior Executive summary The world’s leading PC and printer manufacturer, Hewlett-Packard, was facing multiple problems during the first decade of the 21st century. It provides hardware, software, and services to consumers, small and mid-sized business. Companies such as Hewlett-Packard are supposed to be a stable, rock-solid institution, where a change in CEO rarely happens. But it doesn't always happen that way. In the past six years, HP changed CEO four times. This case study aims to elaborate the reasons of major problems and issues that HP has recently faced in different levels of its management and focuses on corporate behavior of the Hewlett Packard Board of directors and its effect on corporate culture and structure within the organization according to the concepts of the management and organizational behavior (MOB) theories. This study is based on real facts that occurred with the Board of Directors of the Hewlett Packard organization. Business magazine, academic articles, and online submissions, as well as books about the HP way of business were diagnosed for their structure, content, and accuracy of the topic. The research draws attention to the fact that the combined companies experienced many problems-financial, cultural, and structural-resulting in poor performance of Carly Fiorina, who was named CEO of HP in 1999 and fired in 2005...
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...Lynn Silipigni Connaway OCLC Research Timothy J. Dickey OCLC Research Marie L. Radford Rutgers University “If It Is Too Inconvenient, I’m Not Going After It:” Convenience as a Critical Factor in Information-seeking Behaviors Note: This is a pre-print version of a paper forthcoming in Library and Information Science Research. Please cite the published version; a suggested citation appears below. Correspondence about the article may be sent to lynn_connaway@oclc.org. © 2011 OCLC Online Computer Library, Inc. 6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, Ohio 43017-3395 USA http://www.oclc.org/ Reuse of this document is permitted consistent with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 (USA) license (CC-BY-NC-SA): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Suggested citation: Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Timothy J. Dickey, and Marie L. Radford. 2011. "'If It Is Too Inconvenient, I'm Not Going After It.:' Convenience as a Critical Factor in Information-seeking Behaviors." Library and Information Science Research,33: 179-190. doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2010.12.002 Pre-print available online at: http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/connaway-lisr.pdf. “If It Is Too Inconvenient, I’m Not Going After It:” Convenience as a Critical Factor in Information-seeking Behaviors Lynn Silipigni Connaway OCLC Research Timothy J. Dickey OCLC Research Marie L. Radford Rutgers University Abstract In today’s fast-paced...
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...Executive Summary Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is a multinational corporation that creates consumer electronics, smart phones, tablets, personal computers, computer software, and commercial servers, and is a digital distributor of media content. Apple's core product lines are the iPhone smartphone, iPad tablet computer, iPod portable media players, and Macintosh computer line. Founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak effectively created Apple Computer on April 1, 1976, with the release of the Apple I, and incorporated the company on January 3, 1977, in Cupertino, California. Apple experienced modest, but above average growth from its founding until the mid-2000s when the popularity of its iPods and iTunes Store were joined by Apple’s release of the first iPhones. This combination, along with then-CEO Steve Jobs’ iconic leadership, catapulted Apple to successes rarely seen as it became the largest publicly traded company in the world by 2012. Our financial analysis of Apple revealed many things, not the least of which is the simple fact that Apple is a well-run, efficient, innovative company. Over the last three years, Apple realized a consistent positive trend in well over half of the twenty-two key financial ratios analyzed, highlighted by improvements in all profitability and inventory management ratios. It kept pace with the growth experienced in the technology and consumer electronics industries, despite significant gains in market share by giants...
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